AHVERBAHDDY FREEEZE
Today I found the new “Pursuit of Cobra” wave at Target and picked myself up an Arctic Threat Destro, who you may remember from this past week’s Toy News International strip.
He comes with a lot of accessories!
I’m not a big fan of getting more accessories than a character can hold or holster. These new G.I. Joes seem to be really pushing the concept of having as many accessories as possible, so it doesn’t really suit my fancy much, but I’m happy for those who enjoy having a variety of accessories with each figure. Me, I just lose them if they’re not stowed somewhere. Hell, I lose them even if they are! Also, if all the accessories are awesome, it forces me to choose between them. How hard-to-please am I.
Arctic Destro does come with quite a few awesome accessories. Okay, the climbing picks I can take or leave, but they seem to store okay on the backs of his shins (immobilizing him in theory), so no harm no foul. But his squirt gun is awesome. His larger gun is connected to his backpack via a tube, and I noticed while playing with him that there’s a big button on the backpack you can depress with some effort, plus a small hole on the front of the gun. That’s pretty neat! Water squirter! Destro also comes with a smaller gun that looks like it has a canister of ooze or something in the front, like he uses it to vaccinate people. That one’s okay. But what’s pretty awesome is the drill. He comes with a drill!
Now, he can’t hold both the drill and the gun and the other gun… These are hard decisions! Unfortunately, to get him to hold all of his accessories with none left prone on the shelf next to him, I have to shove the awesomer drill through the tube on his backpack to stow it, while putting the less awesome canister gun in his one empty hand. Not my preferred hierarchy, but apparently I value complete weapons storage over awesomer weapons.
He also comes with two pieces of ice that you can attach to other figures to simulate Destro having used his freeze gun/water squirter on them. That’s pretty damn neat. I kinda want to stick them on him, too, as if he’s just really really cold, but the one that hooks up and around the shoulder doesn’t fit on him at all, what with the winter jacket’s hood. So it has to go on another Destro or something. As shown.
Oh, and the goggles. He has goggles.
P.S. There’s Shortpacked! strips tomorrow and Sunday.
So he’s just Mr. Freeze?
You’re crazy! I love all the extra accessories. So many options for pla….. err posing. Yeah, that’s it. posing and displaying. I certainly don’t set up battles and make “pew pew” sounds. Nope. Not me.
I wish my town had wave two. I desire Jungle Vipers far more than is probably healthy.
The “ooze gun” is a flamethrower. Specifically the one from the film itself, that burninated his face. Arctic Doc has a red/yellow version that may be an automatic syringe. Or another flamethrower.
He still needs more accessories. Like a hat, some mittens & a thermos filled with nice hot coco.
This hat would look nice, but alas, it is out of stock:
http://www.brokenarrowtoys.com/cart/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=503
(And yes, I did try to see if I could find the other accessories I mentioned as well…)
(And yes, I am aware he’s already wearing gloves. He still needs mittens. And maybe a poofy coat.)
He could always buy the Marvel Universe Luke Cage toy and use that hat, if the heads fit.
The new desert Zartan has a hat as well.
Yeah the new Joes are very accessory heavy. Personally I think it’s pretty cool. You’d probably like the new Snow Job his huge backpack has a bunch of holes that pretty much all the ton of accessories can plug into. And hey, actual “in-scale” ski’s for the first time ever. They look huge!
Hate to be that guy, but technically, that’s an auger, not a drill. He can use it to make holes in ice for ice-fishing!
My theory is Hasbro knows fans want accessory packs like back in the day but they can’t/won’t do them anymore. Their solution is packing tons of extra stuff with each figure so you can share it across the line. It doesn’t quite fit the same role as an accessory pack, allowing you to have specific duplicates of other figure’s stuff, but it’s close.
I just have a medium-sized box labled “Joe Accessories”.
Oh, and I think the “ooze” gun is the nanomite gun.
I remember buying one of those accessory packs back in the day! Then again, we mostly just took apart our figures (’cause of that screw in their back, y’know? Major selling point for us for GI Joe) and put them back together with weird limb combinations. I have no idea where any of that stuff is now…
That got real fun, when a hobby knife was introduced. You could open up more arm holes. My Dr. Mindbender had three arms.
Why are there Shortpacked! strips tomorrow and Sunday? Any reason or just felt like being nice?
A suggestion for those extra accessories:
If the gear isn’t too big, and you don’t need to display it next to the figure, WalMart has translucent plastic tackle-boxes with removable dividers so you can adjust the size of each compartment.
For the few really neat accessories you want to display next to the figure, or for things too big to fit in the tackle box, places like The Container Store and many craft stores have various sizes of clear plastic box with removable lids, but they do cost more.
(Me, I LOVE those tackle boxes–translucent plastic, maybe 10″ x 14″ x 1.5″, with removable lids; I sold loose 12″ figues & gear at various sf conventions for about a decade, and the boxes were perfect for sorting out GI Joe handguns, grenades, small plastic animals, Barbie shoes, little toy dishes and MRI’s… I could just remove the covers and stack ‘em on the table, and people would browse through them.)